Posts Tagged ‘Putin’

The apocalyptic threat from Isil and the economic paralysis of the eurozone may seem to represent two entirely different dangers to Western democracy – but there is a plausible case for saying that ...
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You might not have noticed, but Russia has invaded Ukraine. Back in June, I wrote that Ukraine's military offensive against pro-Russian rebels in the east had a good chance of succeeding – and, if i...
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Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko, has called a snap parliamentary election. It will be held on 26 October. While Ukraine has been wracked by political tensions since early summer, Poroshenko's an...
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Later this afternoon the Prime Minister will rise amid a sombre House of Commons chamber to deliver the Government’s response to events in Ukraine. The reply would then traditionally be made by the ...
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What would Maggie have done? That is the question I asked the moment I heard that a civilian airliner had been shot down over Ukraine. Of course Britain, America and the West are not all powerful. Our...
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Ukrainian forces have driven heavily armed "pro-Russia separatists" from Slovyansk and Kramatorsk. These separatists are now busy falling back towards Russia and are truculently regrouping in Donetsk....
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“You have to wonder what they are smoking at Nato HQ”, retorted Greenpeace to charges by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary general of the treaty organisation, that Russia was “engaged activel...
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Excluding personnel costs, the US military spends around $4 billion a year to base troops in Germany. These roughly 50,000 Americans are a blessing for German businesses and for the German treasury. G...
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"I felt like tonight Europe showed that we are a community of respect and tolerance,” enthused Conchita Wurst after she won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night. The Bearded Lady, aka Tom N...
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You are the President of the United States. You've just read the report of ARCHER, a reliable US agent who has infiltrated a pro-Russian militia in Odessa. ARCHER claims that Russian Special Forces ar...
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